Steel Strings: The Sound of the Great Depression
3 videos • 69 views • by The Local Pickup Steel Strings: The Sound of the Great Depression is a creative documentary series that explores the Great Depression through its guitars. During the 1920s and 1930s, the guitar became America's instrument. Now able to be heard outside of parlors due to the steel strings, the guitar replaced the banjo as the folk instrument of the day, and it became a central part of American life from rail yard to the jazz club. Learn about the guitars of the Great Depression, and hear the stories that evoke the social-historical experience of the time.